This assignment is based on your reading (The Mathematical Experience, Re-Print

This assignment is based on your reading (The Mathematical Experience, Re-Print of the 1995 edition) of pages 304-348 in the text. It expands upon question #9 on page 351 in your text:
Cognitive styles have been classified as visual, verbal, auditory, kinesthetic. For instance, a composer we know remembers telephone numbers by interpreting them as melodies. This would suggest that she may have an auditory cognitive style. Discuss your own cognitive style and that of someone else you know or know about.
Write an essay discussing one mathematical topic, indicating how it might be taught to address different learning styles. Be sure that in your essay you teach your reader some specific mathematics relative to the topic you select. Use the resources you select to suggest specific strategies for teaching that mathematics. For example, suppose you want to teach your reader about pi, the ratio of a diameter of a circle to its radius. For the visual learner you might want to talk about Archimedes’ approximation of pi (see http://math.furman.edu/~dcs/java/circle.htmlLinks to an external site. ); To help students understand pi as a function, you might address the verbal learning by checking out the resource by George D. Gopen,David A. Smith. “What’s an Assignment Like You Doing in a Course Like This?: Writing to Learn Mathematics.